LASA Support Mini-Grants

Applications are due April 1

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies provides mini-grants for UC Berkeley students to attend and present at the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

Overview

Small stipends to attend the 2025 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Francosco. Funding Amounts: $250 stipend.

Eligibility:

UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply. Students who are presenting at the conference will receive funding priority. 

Application & Review Process

Apply online at this link. Questions can be directed to clacs@berkeley.edu. 

Previous Years Awards

2024 LASA and CSA Travel Grant Recipients

CLACS funded three students to present at the 2024 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association and the 2024 Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference

Name Degree Program Topic
Adriana Gonzales PhD, Energy and Resources Group Utopic Past-ways to Climate Change Adaptation Otherwise: Alternative Adaptation Imaginaries on the Island of Dominica (CSA)
Anna Palmer PhD, Sociology Forging Guyana’s Emerging Petrostate in a Climate-Conscious World (CSA)
Antonia Mardones Marshall PhD, Sociology Similitudes y divergencias en el proceso de institucionalización de una categoría afrodescendiente a partir de políticas estatales en Argentina y Chile (LASA)
Christián González Reyes PhD, Comparative Literature Construcciones mediáticas: el migrante centroamericano imaginado desde la vista mexicana (LASA)
Diego Ayala PhD, Sociology The Spanish Colonial Census and Multiracial Middle Classes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba and Puerto Rico (LASA)
Emily Thompson PhD, Anthropology Uncovering, Recovering, and Putting it All Away: Hidden Photography Archives and Processes of Refusal in Contemporary Perú (LASA)
Gabriel Lesser PhD, Spanish & Portuguese Labor, Race, and Form in Nineteenth-century Cuadros de Costumbres (LASA)
Irene Farah PhD, City & Regional Planning Beyond clientelism: Street vendor bodies as a form of territorial and political power (LASA)
Isabel Peñaranda Currie PhD, City & Regional Planning Politics of the Cadastre: Technical Framings for Redistribution in Bogota (LASA)
J'Anna-Mare Lue PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering Towards Reparative Engineering: Water Infrastructure and Climate Justice in Jamaica (CSA)
Karol Alzate Londoño PhD, Spanish & Portuguese De Ney a Juan Ángel: Una historia del sujeto laboral afro-colombiano entre la esclavitud y la modernidad (LASA)
Patrícia Gomes PhD, Performance Studies “Os espíritos das minhas filhas”: Indigenous Art, Performance, and Feminist Movements in Brazil (LASA)
Priscila Coli Rocha PhD, City & Regional Planning Milícias Grileiras : An Assemblage of Three Trajectories - Death Squads, Land Swindlers, and Urban Social Movements (LASA)
Sandra Oseguera PhD, Anthropology Long-term Agricultural Practices and Cultural Persistence: The case of the Zapotec people of Talea de Castro, Oaxaca (LASA)

2023 LASA Travel Grant Recipients

CLACS funded three students to present at the 2023 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

Name Degree Program Topic
Jair Jauregui Torres PhD, Spanish & Portuguese Museum of the Americas: La lectura ecfrástica de J. Michael Martinez sobre la pintura de castas novohispanas
Alejandra Decker PhD, Spanish & Portuguese “Un país metalifero”: A Culture of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Bruno Anaya Ortiz PhD, Rhetoric Conjuring a “Pueblo”: Legal Claim-Making and the Articulation of Political Subjects in Latin America